What are the steps involved in saving data and retrieving them for gameplay? (SOLVED)

[david.yarbrough]

There are some additional tips here that are helpful. I was having trouble saving data on Android before I found this topic:

Android Manifest permissions not compiling (DEF-1916)

Excellent! Using sys.save(“save_file”, save_data) on Android will try to write to a folder outside of the application-specific folders, and this requires the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission. You should always use sys.get_save_file() first to get a “safe” location to save/load data from.